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Think Tanks in Australia

Author : Trent Hagland
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031270444
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Think Tanks in Australia written by Trent Hagland and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most comprehensive study of the Australian think-tank industry to date. Drawing on empirical evidence, it first assesses the structure of the industry, the methods think tanks use to persuade policymakers, and public perceptions of their effectiveness. The book then proceeds to examine three unique policy cases to analyse think tank influence on policymaking. It argues that whilst think tanks play important roles in Australia’s policy process, their impacts vary depending on their approach and objectives. The book also demonstrates that policymakers with contrasting ideological orientations diverge in their assessments of the utility and influence of think tanks. It will appeal to students and scholars of public policy, and practitioners in public administration and governance.

Policy Analysis in Australia

Author : Brian Head
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447310284
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Policy Analysis in Australia written by Brian Head and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 0

No Enemies, No Friends

Author : Allan Behm
Publisher : Upswell
ISBN 13 : 1743822278
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book No Enemies, No Friends written by Allan Behm and published by Upswell. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is increased defence spending all that Australia needs to ensure its national security? How well placed are we to deal with global shocks and surprises? How should Australia recalibrate its national security settings to deal with global disruption? Drawing on thirty years of experience as a senior government adviser on foreign policy, Allan Behm explores the thinking behind Australia’s security approach and how it’s been shaped by Australia’s cultural and historical experiences. He argues that our mindset is built around pathologies: racism, misogyny, isolation, insecurity, a brashness that masks a deep lack of self-confidence, and the perverse effects of the cultural cringe. No Enemies No Friends doesn’t just show why Australia has become so good at getting things so wrong. Rather, Behm offers practical policy ideas, imbued with optimism, arguing we have every capability to improve. We need to maintain a credible defence force and invest in diplomacy to reduce our dependence on military force and defence alliances. Forward-looking, this is a meditation on how to approach international affairs with sure-footedness in a less predictable world. This is crucial for maintaining Australia’s long-term security and establishing the nation’s confidence to become a significant international actor.

Think Tanks and Civil Societies

Author : R. Weaver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351472127
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Think Tanks and Civil Societies written by R. Weaver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government and individual policymakers throughout the developed and developing world face the common problem of bringing expert knowledge to bear in government decision making. Policymakers need understandable, reliable, accessible, and useful information about the societies they govern. They also need to know how current policies are working, as well as possible alternatives and their likely costs and consequences. This expanding need has fostered the growth of independent public policy research organizations, commonly known as think tanks. Think Tanks and Civil Societies analyzes their growth, scope, and constraints, while providing institutional profiles of such organizations in every region of the world.Beginning with North America, contributors analyze think tank development past and future, consider their relationship to the general political culture, and provide detailed looks at such examples as the Heritage Foundation and the Institute for Research on Public Policy. A historical and subregional overview of think tanks throughout Europe notes the emphasis on European Union issues and points to a dramatic rise in the number and influence of free market institutes across the continent. Think tanks in Germany, Spain, and France are profiled with respect to national politics and cultures. Advanced industrial nations of northern Asia are compared and contrasted, revealing a greater need for independent policy voices. Moving to countries undergoing economic transition, contributors deal with challenges posed in Russia and the former Soviet bloc and their think tanks' search for influence, independence, and sustainability. Other chapters deal with the developing countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, finding that the number, quality, and independence of think tanks is largely determined by the degree of democracy in individual nations.

Do Think Tanks Matter?

Author : Donald E. Abelson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773575413
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Do Think Tanks Matter? by : Donald E. Abelson

Download or read book Do Think Tanks Matter? written by Donald E. Abelson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers. In Do Think Tanks Matter? Donald Abelson argues that the basic question of how think tanks have evolved and under what conditions they can and do have an effect is consistently ignored. Think tank directors often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation and many journalists and scholars believe the explosion of think tanks in the latter part of the twentieth century indicates their growing importance in the policy-making process. Abelson goes beyond assumptions, identifying the influence and relevance of public policy institutes in today's political arena in the United States, where they've become an integral feature of the political landscape, and in Canada, where, despite recent growth in numbers, they enjoy less prominence than their US counterparts. By focusing on the policy cycle, issue articulation, policy formation, and implementation, Abelson argues that individual think tanks have sometimes played an important role in shaping the political dialogue and the policy preferences and choices of decision-makers but often in different ways and at different stages of the policy cycle. This revised and updated edition of the book includes up-to-date data (2000-08) on the growing visibility and policy relevance of think tanks in Canada and the United States.

Making Australian Foreign Policy

Author : Allan Gyngell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521539975
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Making Australian Foreign Policy written by Allan Gyngell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Think Tanks Across Nations

Author : Diane Stone
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719050541
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Think Tanks Across Nations written by Diane Stone and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings attention to the extent of think tank development in countries including Malaysia, Russia, Japan, Italy, the US, and Australia, and explores their involvement in the policy process. Each chapter begins with an empirical and historical analysis of developments in think tanks within a country to gain insight into their diverse forms and behaviors, and compares think tank activity in different countries in an attempt to understand why they have developed differently. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Think Tanks

Author : James G. McGann
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815732929
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Think Tanks written by James G. McGann and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of think tanks—with uniquely Asian characteristics Policy research institutes—better known as think tanks—;are long established and well known in Western countries but have developed only in recent years in much of the rest of the world. Globalization is partly responsible for the new growth in think tanks, since few issues are totally domestic and governments and citizens increasingly understand the need for well-informed policy advice. Think tanks have become especially important in many Asian nations over the past decade, coinciding with their rise to new prominence in international affairs. Asia's major players— the People's Republic of China, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore—and more recently countries in Central Asia like Kazakhstan now have major think tanks. These institutions have become the go-to organizations for proposals and policy advice on key economic, security, social and environmental issues. This book by a noted expert in the field traces the growing influence of these policy actors in Asia, places the trend in historical context, and explores how the region's countries have fostered the growth of think tanks with uniquely Asian characteristics.

Think Tanks and Global Politics

Author : Alejandra Salas-Porras
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137567562
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Think Tanks and Global Politics written by Alejandra Salas-Porras and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a cutting edge analysis of the increasingly central role think tanks play in societies worldwide. Examining their control of global resources both in economic and political policy fields and their inroads into structures of power, it addresses key questions. How have think thanks reached these positions of power? Has the northern core produced neoliberal clones that have hydra-like colonised the globe? Who funds and controls these think tanks and for what purpose? How is policy making knowledge created? How are new policy ideas propagated and validated? How do think tanks become dominant sources of knowledge in public spheres including the media? Exploring the dynamics of think tank networks in specific regions and countries, this book considers the coalitions they generate to advance the social purpose they endorse and, in particular, the spaces they occupy in the structures and fields of power at the national, regional and global level.

Think Tank Traditions

Author : Diane Stone
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719064791
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Think Tank Traditions written by Diane Stone and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think tank traditions is a follow up to the critically acclaimed monograph Think Tanks across Nations (Manchester University Press, 1998), edited by the same authors, which was widely acknowledged as a ground-breaking work in the comparative study of think tanks. The book looks at the historical role and contemporary significance of think tanks in the West, including Europe, the United States and Canada, as well as considering their activities in China, Eastern Europe and Argentina. In so doing, the book provides a broad-based and in-depth analysis of the role of think tanks in the processes of economic liberalization and democratization.

Think Tanks, Foreign Policy and the Emerging Powers

Author : James G. McGann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319603124
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Think Tanks, Foreign Policy and the Emerging Powers written by James G. McGann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines changing international dynamics through the lens of some of the leading think tanks from the emerging powers in the world. Through twelve case studies, the authors explore how security and international affairs think tanks in emerging powers collaborate with their policy makers to meet current and anticipate future foreign policy and security challenges. Overall, the book illustrates and analyzes how think tanks in a variety of political and economic contexts are able to contribute to their respective policy-making processes. Included in the discussions are the problems or successes that each respective nation’s think tanks face, where they feel the emerging nation will be positioned, and where they are failing to meet the policy challenges they face. The book provides a comprehensive look at successful foreign policy formulation to serve as examples for other think tanks in similar political and economic conditions.

Policy Analysis in Australia

Author : Head, Brian
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447347498
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Policy Analysis in Australia written by Head, Brian and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy Analysis in Australia offers a distinctly Australian interpretation of policy scholarship with eighteen chapters strongly reflecting the outstanding contributions of Australian scholars to the field of public policy. It provides a coherent overview of the strengths and opportunities for policy analysis in Australia. It recognises that government agencies are no longer regarded as the sole source of sound policy analysis, and takes a broad view of policy analysis capacity, both within institutions at all levels of government, and beyond government in the media, political parties, business, and non-government associations. It provides a valuable contribution to Australian scholarship about policy analysis in academic, professional, teaching and learning contexts, and is a key addition to research and teaching in comparative policy analysis and policy studies more generally.

OECD Public Governance Reviews Policy Advisory Systems Supporting Good Governance and Sound Public Decision Making

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264283668
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews Policy Advisory Systems Supporting Good Governance and Sound Public Decision Making written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a comparative overview and analysis of the important role played by advisory bodies in public consultation and decision making.

Big

Author : Richard Denniss
Publisher : In the National Interest
ISBN 13 : 9781922633033
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Big written by Richard Denniss and published by In the National Interest. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Morrison wants to spend a lot more money on defence, the business community wants more spending on infrastructure and education, an ageing population wants better health and aged care, and young Australians want more action on climate change and affordable housing. Each problem requires more public spending, but for decades Australians have been told that the less government spends, the better their lives will be. Furthermore, while spending more money will be essential to fund more submarines, aged-care nurses and infrastructure, money alone will not solve the problems faced by Australia. Decades of declining standards of accountability and transparency, of privatisation, deregulation and tax cuts, combined with a lack of energy in strengthening the positive role of government, have led to apathy among the public and parliamentarians. We have allowed our public institutions to shrink and atrophy, and our creativity to wane in choosing not just which services government should provide but how best to provide them. There is a clear alternative: follow the lead of the Nordic countries in the provision of great public health, education, housing and infrastructure, and in doing so boost economic productivity and deliver higher standards of living at lower cost. It is time to jettison the obsession with the 'unfinished reform agenda' of the 1990s, to consider the breadth and depth of the new challenges confronting Australia, and to chart a course in which governments take more responsibility for solving the problems that will dominate Australian lives in the years ahead. We must abandon decades of denial that the public sector can play a bigger and better role in improving our lives. To build the bigger government these times demand, we must first abandon the baggage of the past.

The Politics of Think Tanks in Europe

Author : Jesper Dahl Kelstrup
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317421647
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Think Tanks in Europe written by Jesper Dahl Kelstrup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 21st century, think tanks have become more than a buzzword in European public discourse. They now play important roles in the policy-making process by providing applied research, building networks and advocating policies. The book studies the development of think tanks and contemporary consequences in the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark and at the EU-level. A Continental think tank tradition in which the state plays a pivotal role and an Anglo-American tradition which facilitates interaction in public policy on market-like terms have shaped the development of think tanks. On the basis of a typology of think tanks, quantitative data and interviews with think tank practitioners, the interplay between state and market dynamics and the development of different types of think tanks is analysed. Although think tanks develop along different institutional trajectories, it is concluded that the Anglo-American tradition has had a significant, cross-cutting impact in Europe in recent years. The contention over the politics of think tanks runs deeper at the EU-level than in the member states and reflects disagreement over how the EU should develop in the future. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of political communication, public policy, European politics and comparative politics.

Capitol Idea

Author : D. E. Abelson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773575979
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Capitol Idea written by D. E. Abelson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abelson focuses on a host of high profile think tanks - including the Brookings Institution, the Heritage Foundation, and the Project for the New American Century - and on the public and private channels they rely on to influence important and controversial foreign policies, including the development and possible deployment of a National Missile Defense and George Bush's controversial war on terror. In the process of uncovering how some of the nation's most prominent think tanks have established themselves as key players in the political arena, he challenges traditional approaches to assessing policy influence and suggests alternative models.

An Introduction to Australian Public Policy

Author : Sarah Maddison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107276942
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Australian Public Policy written by Sarah Maddison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public policy arena is a complex framework of actors, politics and instruments. An Introduction to Australian Public Policy, Second Edition examines the broad range of models, influences and players that shape the development of public policy in Australia, and equips students with a working knowledge of both the theoretical underpinnings and real-world challenges of the field. Fully revised and updated, the new edition addresses the diverse approaches to policy formulation required by different practitioners and institutions. Accessible and engaging, this edition includes: a new chapter on policy evaluation; practical exercises on how to write policy briefs and media releases and eleven new, concise case studies from Australia's top public policy practitioners. The book is accompanied by a companion website which contains chapter summaries and a glossary. Widely regarded as the best introduction to Australian public policy available, the book is an essential resource for undergraduate students of politics and policy workers.